Brendan Rodgers underestimated Crystal Palace on the night Liverpool blew the title

• Liverpool drew 3-3 with Crystal Palace despite Brendan Rodgers' side leading 3-0
• Rodgers had branded Tony Pulis' side as a team who would rely on 'long balls and long throws-ins'
• Result all but ended Liverpool's Premier League title dreams
• Before every training session, Tony Pulis reminded his players that Brendan Rodgers wasn't a fan of Crystal Palace and their football.
  Liverpool's manager had them down as a primitive Premier League team who would rely on 'long balls and long throws-ins'.
  He called it wrong, catastrophically so. After this extraordinary comeback by Palace, recovering from 3-0 down to draw 3-3, Rodgers must play the long game.
  

  

  Centre of attention: Brendan Rodgers oversees his side's dramatic draw at Crystal Palace on Monday night

  
  Liverpool's manager has accepted that their chances of winning the title are over. Well done Manchester City and good luck, he said. Truth be told Rodgers under-estimated Palace and this incredible match will surely be remembered as the night when Liverpool blew the title.
  When Dwight Gayle scored Palace's third goal, there is no stadium in the country that has experienced a noise level like it this season. The corrugated iron roofs of the Main Stand, Arthur Wait and Holmesdale Road at Selhurst Park nearly flew into the night sky. Rodgers, standing on the edge of the technical area, turned to his assistant, Colin Pascoe. They knew, as everybody else knows, they could not win the Premier League title from there.
  Rodgers' team, including the newly crowned Football Writers' Footballer of the Year, Luis  Suarez, have been left shredded. They have nothing left to give.
  Gayle, who also scored in Palace's defeat at Liverpool in October, has barely been able to get a game this season and yet he scored two remarkable goals. What a night for him.  





On target: Dwight Gayle levels for the hosts on a stunning night of drama at Crystal Palace

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